UK PM Blair boosts Scientology

[Rrose Selavy]

AT least somebody still thinks that Tony Blair is an image-booster. Supporters of the church of Scientology have got him to pose unwittingly with a DVD promoting the aims of L Ron Hubbard, its founder.

A picture of the prime minister, standing beside a high-ranking Scientologist, appears on an American website popular with supporters of the controversial church. The photo was taken in the garden of the Catholic church attended by the Blair family during their holiday in Barbados last summer.
The DVD, Youth for Human Rights, plays regularly in the foyer of Scientology’s new London headquarters and bears a quotation from Hubbard, who taught that humans are descended from beings from a distant galaxy....

read rest of report here UK Sunday Times website
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2558102,00.html

 

[Darat]

From the article:

This weekend Guy Grant, the man posing with Blair, explained his publicity coup: “I mentioned the Youth for Human Rights movement because it’s something everybody can get behind.

Pity they didn't run with the whole quote....

This weekend Guy Grant, the man posing with Blair, explained his publicity coup: “I mentioned the Youth for Human Rights movement because it’s something everybody can get behind. [And I thought I'm bound to get some UK newspapers to give us publicity for this.]"

 

[Rrose Selavy]

Here's a link another article :

http://www.nowpublic.com/youth_for_human_rights_international_dvd_presented_to_prime_minister_blair

and the enlarged image itself:
http://www.nowpublic.com/youth_for_...ional_dvd_presented_to_prime_minister_blair_0

 

[Big Les]

Dozy bleeder.

 

[Rrose Selavy]

If you put "Guy Grant" into Google - you get a Cambridge University based academic - the two do look similar though I am hesitating to post the link as I may be wrong and I wouldn't like to smear anyone -

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